It was love I opened to. In 1 John 4:8 we are told that God is love. That love, though, is not passive. It is a love that infuses, envelops, holds, heals and calms. God, as Buckminster Fuller wrote, is a verb.

We become expressions of that verb when we open and allow love to not merely move us, but to move through us and out into the world. We drink it in, so we can pour it back out.

Even when we don’t live up to this potential, love waits. When I did finally melt down during a disagreement with my husband, it was love that restored our bond and brought us back together again.